Frederick Douglass: “A death blow was then given to the slaveholding rebellion.”

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.